Watch the Sinking of the Titanic in Real Time

don't get my wrong, i'm quite interested in titanic and have watched various docs on it etc....but there's not way i'm sitting through 2hrs 34mins of that ;)
 
Pretty good although I did skip through a lot of it.
 
rampanthamster said:
don't get my wrong, i'm quite interested in titanic and have watched various docs on it etc....but there's not way i'm sitting through 2hrs 34mins of that ;)
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Yip - 2min 34 secs would have been plenty. Look odd with no ice and no one on it.
 
Cabin boy : Cap'n Cap'n seagull dead ahead!
1st mate : Run along sonny, the captain's not interested in seagulls
Cabin boy : he will be in this one, its sat on a f*****g great iceberg!
 
TBH, I haven't seen it, though I love the subject and once had a Daily Mirror newspaper from April 17th 1912 which we found under the carpet in my great grandma's house :-)
I'm sure it's well done, but surely just another attempt to define the undefinable?
There's been no one left for years capable of accurately describing it, and I'm sure those who did witness it had their perceptions skewed by the darkness, cold, fear etc.
 
Nikon_Nick said:
Leo and Kate are still alive, aren't they? :whistle:
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No. Only Kate. Leo died in the movie, I saw it.
That fella that got buggered by the bear in Revenant is an imposter!
 
Nikon_Nick said:
Spoiler warning next time please :D:p
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I haven't seen The Revenant.....but the bear bit (so to speak) was legendary before it was even released :lo:
 
...anyway, he only pretended he was dead, as he realised she was going to be really clingy. He couldn't be arsed with it.
 
viv1969 said:
That fella that got buggered by the bear in Revenant is an imposter!
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Hmmm I was in 2 minds as to whether or not it would be worth watching, but I guess the answer now is yes,
if only to see him grin and bear it :D
 
My grandfather was 12 years old when Titanic sank, but after leaving school became an electrician and sailed on her sister ship Olympic on a number of occasions. He once told me that he had sailed with a number of Titanic Crew survivors but did not go into details. Perhaps he didn't want to disturb his young grandson. He also sailed on the Britannic, Majestic and on the Maiden Voyage of RMS Queen Mary in 1936 from Southampton to New York. During the crossing he received a telegram to inform him that his wife had given birth to a baby girl - my mother !
 
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Blank_Canvas said:
My grandfather was 12 years old when Titanic sank, but after leaving school became an electrician and sailed on her sister ship Olympic on a number of occasions. He once told me that he had sailed with a number of Titanic Crew survivors but did not go into details. Perhaps he didn't want to disturb his young grandson. He also sailed on the Britannic, Majestic and on the Maiden Voyage of RMS Queen Mary in 1936 from Southampton to New York. During the crossing he received a telegram to inform him that his wife had given birth to a baby girl - my mother !
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I bet he had some tales to tell!
 
viv1969 said:
I bet he had some tales to tell!
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Sadly, I would loved to have sat down and had a chat with him on later life but that was not meant to be. I always promised him I would take him back to Queen Mary when I was older. Sadly he died before I got the opportunity. Ironically, I had just got the money together which made it harder to deal with.

The only tale I can really recall is that the ships company spent hours trying to search and round up a monkey that had managed to escape whilst being transported. No mean feat I would imagine, so many nooks and crannies and places to hide. It turned out that it was a plausible wind up (livestock often transported) and they had been searching for it for hours. He was merchant seaman during the war and I'm just going through the process to obtain his service records.
 
Blank_Canvas said:
Sadly, I would loved to have sat down and had a chat with him on later life but that was not meant to be. I always promised him I would take him back to Queen Mary when I was older. Sadly he died before I got the opportunity. Ironically, I had just got the money together which made it harder to deal with.

The only tale I can really recall is that the ships company spent hours trying to search and round up a monkey that had managed to escape whilst being transported. No mean feat I would imagine, so many nooks and crannies and places to hide. It turned out that it was a plausible wind up (livestock often transported) and they had been searching for it for hours. He was merchant seaman during the war and I'm just going through the process to obtain his service records.
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I think I'd have liked chatting to your grandad :-)
 
Lettuce all enjoy these salad puns before a mod gives us all a dressing down and we have to leaf.

Why? Just 'cos.
 
Llamaman said:
Lettuce all enjoy these salad puns before a mod gives us all a dressing down and we have to leaf.

Why? Just 'cos.
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Which raises the fact that there were more heads of lettuce on board the Titanic than their were passengers.
Did any if them survive?
 
Actually there were more lifeboats onboard Titanic than were required by The Board of Trade but sadly that did not prevent loss off 1,500 souls.
 
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